The European Council has agreed a new position on the internal electricity market, placing consumer empowerment, cross-border trading and higher levels of renewables at the heart of the European Union’s efforts to transition to a low carbon economy.

As 2017 draws to a close, Clean Energy News looks back on what has been a considerably interesting year for the energy transition. In the second of a series of articles running this week, we recap the best stories that broke in April, May and June.

Systems design and energy technology company Faraday Grid is “unashamedly seeking to change the course of history” with the launch of its prototype Faraday Exchanger, which it says can be used to integrate significantly high levels of renewable energy onto the grid.

As 2017 draws to a close, Clean Energy News looks back on what has been a considerably interesting year for the energy transition. In the first of a series of articles running this week, we recap the best stories of 2017, beginning today with January through March.

BP has said the Lightsource solar business it acquired a 43% stake in last week would be “massively complementary” to its existing alternative energy division.

BP is “excited to be coming back to solar” after acquiring a 43% stake in prolific UK-based solar developer Lightsource in what stands to be a significant new solar partnership.

Ofgem is to kick off the recruitment process for a new chair after David Gray announced his intent to retire next year.

Battery storage and smart technologies are to be rolled out to homes in the Irish town of Dingle as part of a new trial to test their potential to support the use of variable renewable energy supply resources and smart connection to the Irish electricity grid.

Good Energy has signed up Europe’s largest smart charging solutions provider for electric vehicles as it prepares to launch a new proposition for its business and domestic customers.